Flutter, Kick

In her award-winning second book, Anna V. Q. Ross explores motherhood through narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance, tracing the political within the domestic and the routes of the past within everyday life. These are poems of reclamation, reminding us that "in those days, we were fast and best, but didn't know it."

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2022
Publisher: Red Hen Press

In her captivating second book, Anna V. Q. Ross takes motherhood as a lens, delving into narratives of girlhood, migration, trauma, and inheritance. This intricate and visually rich collection explores the political within the domestic and traces the echoes of the past within everyday life. A bruise transforms into a flower, then a flag proudly planted to claim an adopted land; the hull of a Viking ship becomes the framework of a plane carrying an immigrating mother home; and the mundane routines of carpools, math homework, and bedtime stories are interrupted by memories of abuse and reports of school shootings, environmental collapse, and more. Yet, at their core, these poems are acts of reclamation, reminding us that "in those days, we were swift and best, but didn't know it." Wary and watchful, never resigned, Flutter, Kick maps the spaces for compassion we carve in a perilous world.

Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781636280455